National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab, No. 86-1879 (U.S. Supreme Court) (489 U.S. 656; 109 S.Ct. 1384) (March 21, 1989) (Justice Kennedy)
Here the Court upheld a drug-testing program of the Custom's service that required urinalysis tests of certain employees seeking promotion on the grounds of a "compelling government interest" that overrode the employee's privacy rights.
In 1986, the U.S. Customs Service announced implementation of the drug-testing program as a condition of ...
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